A KNAPHILL father’s ‘mischievous and moving’ film starring his own family has raised £1,400 for Shooting Star CHASE.

A KNAPHILL father’s ‘mischievous and moving’ film starring his own family has raised £1,400 for Shooting Star CHASE.

Peter Frow’s The Inventurers started as a short family movie but grew into a feature length film shown at the Ambassadors Cinemas in Woking on December 12h.

Shot on a shoestring budget, Mr Frow said The Inventurers was designed to encourage creativity and ‘inspire children to create for themselves away from the easy reward of the computer game’.

Mr Frow, a film-maker and designer, of Victoria Road, said: “The charity premiere screening at Woking, went really well. It was well attended and the film was very well received.

“The audience spanned from eight to 80-year-olds and the children really enjoyed it.”

He described it as a ‘true family film’ starring himself and his son Alex, 15, with his wife using the clapperboard and his daughter Emma, 20, doing the sound.

Other cast members, Glen Sherrington, his father John Sherrington, Josephine James, her mother Therese James, and Matt Coyde, included neighbours.The film was shot in and around Woking, Knaphill and Chobham, including Horsell Common, on the Basingstoke Canal, and at Mizens Railway in Knaphill, as well as Painshill Park in Cobham and Brook-lands Museum in Weybridge.

Mr Frow said: “Funny, mischievous and moving, The Inventurers is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys, Jim, who is struggling with his parents’ divorce, and his friend Matt.

“Because of a power cut in their street, they suddenly have to rely on their imaginations without computer games for entertainment.”

The premiere at the Woking cinema raised £1,400 for Shooting Star CHASE with further private donations expected to follow.

“As a father of three children I had a discussion with the cast and everybody felt that as this was a children/teenagers’ film that it would be fitting for the film to support a charity that’s primary work was with children and teenagers,” Mr Frow, 49, added.

“This is why we chose to support the Shooting Star CHASE charity: helping young people less fortunate than ourselves.

“We also hope that Shooting Star CHASE will be able to benefit from the film further in the New Year.”